Articles July 2015
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Trade News
Muldersdrift Junior Chefs Sharpen Skills
A handful of junior Muldersdrift chefs and assistant chefs have recently completed a series of workshops hosted by the Guvon…
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Conference on Conferencing & Events
A brand new conference is being launched for the South African Events Industry that aims to address the numerous and…
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Group73 Announce Next 24 Hour Survival Course
Group73’s next Bear Grylls Survival Academy 24 Hour Adult course takes place on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd…
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A good tourism industry is good for Seychelles
“A good tourism industry is good for Seychelles and each citizen should bear this in mind”. The Seychelles Minister for…
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Balloon Safari Excellence Accolade
With the recent award of a Certificate of Excellence from the world’s largest travel site, TripAdvisor, Bill Harrop’s “Original” Balloon…
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New Gauteng Sales Manager for Protea Hotels
Protea Hotels is thrilled to announce the return of Jacky Maulgueto the Protea Hotels fold in her new position as…
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Three Prestigious Awards for Pretoria Hotel
The Menlyn Boutique Hotel is proud to announce that they have recently been nominated for three prestigious awards; namely the…
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Protea Hotels appoints new Sales Manager
Protea Hotels has appointed Gareth Venner as Group International Sales Manager, a promotion from his current role at Protea as…
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Fish Hoek pupil wins Hospitality Bursary
International Hotel School “boot camp” challenges hosted at Peninsula All-Suite Hotel Matric pupil Brad Taylor of Fish Hoek High was…
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Shipwrecked in Port Edward
For more than a decade, Port Edward residents on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast have commemorated the lives of the passengers…
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Guvon Hotels & Spas Warms Mandela Day
Main image: Guvon Hotels celebrating its milestone of 67 Blankets for Mandela Day. “I never thought I would learn how…
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Seychelles Tourism Board brings trade on SA road show
Main image: Seychelles travel trade participants from the 2014 South African road show. The Seychelles Tourism Board and 15 trade…
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Hotel Verde, Cape Town Achieves Global First
Hotel Verde, in Cape Town South Africa, has just been awarded a second LEED® Platinum Green Building Certification by the…
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Waterkloof Estate warms up with a hearty Winter Platter
Waterkloof Estate is warming up with a hearty Winter Platter. Bring on the big chill as Waterkloof, the arresting cellar…
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Airline Tickets: Biggest Online Purchases in SA
The 2014 South African eCommerce Report shows that airline tickets are the biggest online sellers among South Africans with 68.09%…
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Celebrating all things Portuguese & Mariner’s Mass
This year’s Portuguese Mariners Food, Wine & Family Festival takes place once again at Fazenda’s Mac Banana’s in Munster on…
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Fair Trade Tourism Joins Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label
The Seychelles’ Ministry of Tourism and Culture will be signing an agreement with the Fair Trade Tourism soon so that…
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Tourism KwaZulu-Natal Hosts Top Buyers
Tourism KwaZulu-Natal (TKZN) has teamed up with leading international tourism players to position the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) as a global tourism…
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Cape Town Hotels No.1 for Online Reputation
Cape Town’s hotels are rated tops for their online reputation, according to a new report issued by PwC. The city’s…
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Long-haul Travel Sentiment: Europe
Travel sentiment in Europe’s key long-haul travel markets proves upbeat for the summer travel period as shown by the latest…
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Continental Tyre SA Appoints New Managing Director
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 07 July 2015- Continental Tyre South Africa today announced the selection of Shaun Uys (45) as…
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Faircity Hotels Appoints New Managing Director
Main Image: Fairfield’s Quatermain Hotel Entrance (Sandton Business and Conferencing Hotel, with a focus on leisure on the weekends). Since…
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Reinstatement of Annual Star Grading System
The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA), a unit of South African Tourism, today announced a decision to revert…
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Wildtrak Ready to Take on the World
The new Ranger Wildtrak, the ultimate model in the Ford Ranger line-up, made its global debut on 10 June 2015,…
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Editorial Comment
Cover Story – July
Our cover for July is dedicated to the National Arts Festival – a major tourist attraction, and an important event…
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Events
2015 Lilizela Tourism Awards Judging
Earlier this year, South African Tourism invited members of the tourism industry to form part of the 2015 Lilizela Tourism…
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Events
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Attractions
KZN South Coast Attractions
There’s a lot to keep anyone busy along the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, especially in terms of tourist attractions in…
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Events
Conscious Conferencing
Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch coined the phrase ‘Conscious Conferencing’. Des Langkilde investigates this claim and finds it to be…
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Legal
Law of Contracts – Part 12
In Part 1 (August 2014), I categorised risk into five categories, namely; 1. PEOPLE, 2. MONEY, 3. LAW, 4. SERVICE…
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Marketing
Language: USP or Barrier?
In the hospitality and tourism industry we all try to push our unique selling points (USP’s) and differentiate our products…
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Marketing
‘Expatria’ – a potential Tourism Source Market?
If ‘Expatria’ – an imaginary nation of expatriates/immigrants – were a nation, it would be the fifth most populous on…
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Seven Tips to Improve your B2B Marketing
– Part 2 – In the June edition of Tourism Tattler, I wrote Part One of a three-part series that…
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